Nisus Writer EXPRESS ® User’s Guide
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Table of Contents Welcome to Nisus Writer Express .................................................................................. i Before You Begin ...................................................................................................... i About the Nisus Writer Express Documentation .................................................................................. i Using the Documentation .....................................................................................................
Table of Contents Change the font ................................................................................................................................. Scroll through a longer list of fonts ......................................................................................................... Change the typeface or color ................................................................................................................ Change the size ..............................................
Table of Contents Copy text only, without its attributes .................................................................................................... 45 Copy attributes only, without its text .................................................................................................... 45 Drag and Drop ...................................................................................................................................... 45 Cutting Text .........................................
Table of Contents Set tabs ................................................................................................................................................ 72 Use leader tabs ................................................................................................................................... Set the type of leader before placing a tab ............................................................................................. Move a tab indicator using the mouse .............
Table of Contents Set column and gutter width .............................................................................................................. 109 Balance column text .......................................................................................................................... 110 Using the Page Borders palette to put a line around the edge of your page .............................................. 111 Determine around which portion of the page’s perimeter the border appears ...
Table of Contents Tables ................................................................................................................................................... 139 What is a table? ................................................................................................................................. 139 Types of tables .................................................................................................................................. 139 Insert/create a table .........
Table of Contents Word Count and Document Statistics .............................................................................................. 173 Finding and Replacing Text ............................................................................................................... 174 Using Normal Find ............................................................................................................................ 174 Enter something into the Find box ...................................
Table of Contents Jump to any page using the menus .................................................................................................... 207 Jump to any page using the page number display in the Statusbar ..................................................... 207 Alphabetizing (sorting) Paragraphs ................................................................................................... 208 Sort paragraphs .............................................................................
Table of Contents Choose the Way in Which Files Save ................................................................................................. 221 Save files after a certain number of minutes ......................................................................................... 221 Have the Autosave feature of Nisus Writer Express serve as a “crash recovery” tool .................................. 221 Have Nisus Writer Express automatically create backups of your work ...........................
Table of Contents Working with Macro Files ................................................................................................................. 246 Before Creating a Macro .................................................................................................................... 247 Typing Menu Commands................................................................................................................... 247 Create a new macro file .........................................
Table of Contents Appendix II ......................................................................................................... 264 Displaying Fonts and Text ..................................................................................... 264 About displaying fonts ....................................................................................................................... 264 How Nisus Writer Express displays your text ...............................................................
Welcome to Nisus Writer Express Nisus [(nice us): L., noun of action f. niti, to strive, endeavor.] Effort, endeavor. Writer: One who writes, especially as an occupation. Express: A rapid, efficient system for the delivery.
ii Getting Help Welcome to Nisus Writer Express configure Nisus Writer Express to suit your working style. Try both methods to see which one you like. Getting Help All of us at Nisus Software are proud of our commitment to offer you quality software. Aside from this manual we have included both “Tool Tips” and Electronic on-line help available from the Help menu. We also offer technical support from our offices.
Welcome to Nisus Writer Express Enter your license number Figure 2 The Licenses dialog 3. If you have used up your demo time ▶ ▶ and have not yet purchased the program, click Buy License…. This opens your Web browser and takes you to the Nisus Software Inc. online store where you can purchase a license. and have already purchased the program, click Enter License…. Figure 3 The Add License dialog 4. Enter your name as the Owner. 5. Press @ and enter your License Number.
iv Enter your license number 6. 7. 8. Welcome to Nisus Writer Express If you have purchased Nisus Writer Express from a reseller you should have a copy of the CD and a card with installation instructions and a sticker on it that has the license number. Click Personal or Computer depending on your needs Nisus Writer Express is licensed on a “per computer” not “per user” basis. If you are the only user of this computer click Personal.
Getting Started For those who don’t believe in reading manuals “Quick Start” offers the bare minimum of what you need to know to start the application, create and/or open a file, write and edit some text, then save and print it. Nisus Writer Express a “Grand Tour” is where you learn about Nisus Writer Express menus, dialogs, and tools. Review this section to learn more about the Nisus Writer Express working environment and its features.
2 Quick Start Getting Started 3. When you see it in the list, double click the name of the file you want to open (or click once to select the file and then click the Open button). You can open any file you have saved in your Nisus Documents folder. ▶ Use the Document Manager. 1. Choose Document Manager from the Window menu. 2. Scroll through the list of files that appears there. 3.
Getting Started Quick Start Save your file Nisus Writer Express offers you a number of ways to save your work. The application can do this automatically or you can do it manually. Save your file the first time and give it a name 1. Choose Save As… from the File menu. 2. Type the name you want to use for the file in the Save As text edit box at the top of the document. 3. Navigate through your folders to find the location where you want to save the file. 4.
Nisus Writer Express — a “Grand Tour” Have you ever entered a new building or travelled to a new land and stood bedazzled by what lay before you? Where were all those buttons and knobs? Why were all the street signs and address markers different from what you knew before? Even cars, which are all pretty standard in their tools, put the light windshield wiper controls in different locations. So it is, also, with software.
6 The Nisus Writer Express Window The Nisus Writer Express Window Nisus Writer Express’s window resembles those of other Macintosh applications.
Getting Started The Nisus Writer Express — a Grand Tour The Nisus Writer Express Icon in the Dock Figure 7 The Nisus Writer Express icon, and its menu, in the Dock The Nisus Writer Express Dock icon also has a menu. From it you can choose any of your open windows. The menu also indicates: • • which document window is active (the check mark) which is in the Dock (the diamond).
8 The Nisus Writer Express Window Getting Started Format Use Format (with its many submenus) to change the way your text appears in your document. A complete listing and description of the commands of this menu begins on page 25. Table Use Table to insert and modify tables. A complete listing and description of the commands of this menu begins on page 32. Macro Use Macro to write and run Perl scripts and Command menu macros.
Getting Started The Menu Bar • • To control an inactive window, press A. You can press A and click the show/hide Toolbar button to rotate through the various display options of the Toolbar in all open Nisus Writer Express windows. You can, scroll, move and resize inactive windows in this way without activating them. You cannot click inside the text editing area of the window without activating it.
10 Nisus Writer Express Windows Getting Started or Figure 10 Pop-up menu indicators Click and hold to display the menu, then choose an option. • Text boxes, indicated by a rectangular box, allow you to enter text in a dialog. To type in a text box, click in the box and begin typing. To move between text boxes, press @. Nisus Writer Express allows you to copy, cut and paste in all the text boxes.
Getting Started The Nisus Writer Express Statusbar 11 Open and close the Nisus Writer Express Tooldrawer with one click. For more information on using the Tooldrawer see page 14. Rotate through the various sizes of the icons and text of the Toolbar display ▶ ☞ Press A as you click the Show Toolbar button in the upper right corner of the Title Bar of the active window. You can alter which icons appear on the Toolbar. See “Change the Display of the Toolbar” on page 240 for a thorough explanation.
12 The Nisus Writer Express Toolbar • Getting Started The List Tag Click to select (the current range or all text with the current list attribute(s)) modify or remove the current list attributes. The Tag appears whenever the paragraph has any attributes that override the style of the list assigned such as the list style, list level, and starting number (including “Continue Numbering From Previous”).
Getting Started The Nisus Writer Express Tooldrawer The Nisus Writer Express Tooldrawer The Nisus Writer Express Tooldrawer holds a number of palettes to ease the manipulation of your text. Almost all of the tools available in the Tooldrawer are available on the menus of Nisus Writer Express. However not all the tools that are available in the palettes are available from the menus.
14 The Nisus Writer Express Tooldrawer Getting Started The palettes are designed to give you an uncluttered working environment, while, at the same time giving you quick access to information about your document and the tools to manipulate it. ☞ The Tooldrawer is not available in Full Screen view. Modify the Nisus Writer Express Tooldrawer The Nisus Writer Express Tooldrawer holds a number of palettes to ease the manipulation of your text. Palettes are grouped according to task.
Getting Started The Nisus Writer Express Tooldrawer 15 Change the palettes that display in the Tooldrawer You can rearrange the palettes that appear in any particular set. You can have a palette appear in multiple sets, thereby making those tools available in more contexts.
16 The Nisus Writer Express Tooldrawer Getting Started font you want, displaying the closest match (in alphabetical order). When you see the font you want, press T to confirm your choice. ☞ To learn more about using fonts (where they belong in your System, etc.) see pages 27 and (for non-Roman text) 36. If you want to change the typeface and/or size, you can press @ to confirm and select the next field in the palette. Change the typeface or color 1. Select the text you wish to change. 2.
Getting Started The Nisus Writer Express Tooldrawer 17 • • normal right to left. For more information on right to left text editing see “Enter right to left text in your document” on page 40. Change the space between lines of text (“leading”) 1. Select the text (lines or paragraphs) you wish to change. 2. Click the “stepper” to the space you want. Figure 16 The “stepper” in the Spacing portion of the Paragraph palette The Size box updates to display the actual size of the space.
18 The Nisus Writer Express Tooldrawer Getting Started number of pages in your document. It also indicates the percentage to which you have zoomed your window. It also offers additional tools relating to the magnification of your document’s display. Show the Page palette ▶ Choose Page Zoom from the Palettes submenu of the Window menu. Magnify, or, zoom in and out of your document Click and drag the slider in the “Page” palette.
The Nisus Writer Express Menus For reference, this section gives a brief description of every menu command in Nisus Writer Express. Details on how to use the commands in conjunction with one another to accomplish tasks appear in later sections of the manual. It is structured by the order of the menus on the Menu Bar; the commands in the Nisus Writer Express menu are discussed first, then those in the File, and so forth. Nisus Writer Express Menu .............................................................
20 The Nisus Writer Express Menus (File Menu) Getting Started File Menu Choose commands from the File menu to open, save, and print documents in Nisus Writer Express. New Opens a new, untitled document. Open… Opens an existing, saved document for on-screen reading and/or editing. Open Recent Choose commands from the Open Recent submenu to open files you have recently worked on in Nisus Writer Express.(customizable in the General preferences of Nisus Writer Express).
Getting Started The Nisus Writer Express Menus (Edit Menu) 21 ▸Copy Character Attributes ▸Copy Ruler Copies the font and other attribute information of selected text. Copies the ruler information of selected text. Paste ▸Paste Inserts the contents of the current Clipboard into your document at the insertion point. ▸Swap Paste Swaps the current selection with the contents of the current Clipboard.
22 The Nisus Writer Express Menus (Edit Menu) ▸Randomly (shuffle) Find Getting Started Changes the sequence so that selected paragraphs appear in a random shuffle. Choose commands from the Find submenu to specify Find and Replace options. Opens the Find/Replace window. Finds the next occurrence of the Find Expression in the active document without activating the Find/Replace window.
Getting Started The Nisus Writer Express Menus (Insert Menu) 23 Insert Menu Use the Insert menu to add objects (images, etc.), formatting elements (page and column breaks, sections, etc.) and numbering variables, footnotes and/or endnotes, tables of contents, indexes, images and hypertext links to your document. Automatic Number Choose commands from the Automatic Number submenu to insert into your document numbers that automatically increment and sort.
24 The Nisus Writer Express Menus (Insert Menu) Getting Started Bookmarks Commands from the Bookmarks submenu enable you to mark a selection of text to which you can jump and/or cross-reference. ▸Add Bookmark Creates a bookmark using selected text. ▸Add Bookmark As… Presents a dialog enabling you to name a bookmark of selected text. ▸Remove Bookmark Removes a bookmark from selected text. ▸Show Bookmarks in Navigator Displays all bookmarked text in a list to the left of the document window.
Getting Started The Nisus Writer Express Menus (View Menu) 25 Show/Hide Toolbar Hides or displays the Toolbar at the top of the Nisus Writer Express document window. Customize Toolbar… Opens a sheet that enables you to customize the appearance of the Toolbar. Show/Hide Tooldrawer Displays a drawer of tools to the right or left side of the Nisus Writer Express document window (depending on the side set in the General preferences of Nisus Writer Express).
26 The Nisus Writer Express Menus (Format Menu) Getting Started the Attribute Sensitive checkbox unchecked (for that particular attribute). ▸Redefine Style From Selection When applied to a selection the attributes of which are controlled by a style sheet, any modifications to the attributes are applied to all text with that style applied. ▸Emphatic A style supplied in the shipped Nisus New File, applies the user defined attributes of the emphatic style(usually Italic in HTML documents) to selected text.
Getting Started The Nisus Writer Express Menus (Format Menu) 27 document. These styles are based on standard HTML editing conventions. These styles only appear when and if you insert an endnote or footnote in your text. ▸Redefine Style From Selection When applied to a selection the attributes of which are controlled by a style sheet, any modifications to the attributes are applied to all text with that style applied.
28 The Nisus Writer Express Menus (Format Menu) Getting Started Font. In this instance it functions the same as having the Attribute Sensitive checkbox unchecked (for that particular attribute). Size Choose a point size from the Size submenu to apply that size to the current selection. If you have text selected, Nisus Writer Express applies the size change at the insertion point, and as you type, the text displays in the size you have chosen.
Getting Started The Nisus Writer Express Menus (Format Menu) 29 ▸Show Underline Colors Opens the Colors panel enabling you to set the color of the Underline. Strikethrough Choose commands from the Strikethrough submenu of the Format menu to apply and/or remove various strikethrough attributes to or from selected text.
30 The Nisus Writer Express Menus (Format Menu) Getting Started Kern Choose commands from the Kern menu to cause selected text to be squeezed closer or spread further apart. ▸Use None Removes any squeezing or spreading of selected text (unless some other baseline attribute has been added i.e. based on a style defined in Style Sheet view). ▸Remove Kern Attribute Removes any squeezing or spreading of text. When in the Find/Replace window this command displays as Any Kerning.
Getting Started The Nisus Writer Express Menus (Format Menu) 31 Lists Choose commands from the Lists submenu to cause selected text to have bullets or various sequences of numbers before it (or to remove those numbers). Additional list styles you create appear above New List Style…. ▸Restart Numbering Restarts the numbering sequence for every paragraph that is selected. ▸Continue Numbering from Previous Resumes the numbering sequence from the last number or letter before any break was introduced.
32 The Nisus Writer Express Menus (Format Menu) Getting Started Attribute Sensitive checkbox unchecked (for that particular attribute). ▸Show Background Colors Opens the Colors panel enabling you to change the background color of selected text to any color you can point to. Table Menu Use commands of the Table menu and its submenus to insert and modify your tables in Nisus Writer Express. New Table… Inserts a new table. Convert to Table Converts selected tab delimited text to a table.
Getting Started The Nisus Writer Express Menus (Table Menu) 33 Macro Menu Use commands of the Macro menu to automate aspects of how you use Nisus Writer Express. The Macro menu supports submenus that consist of folders inside the Macro folder. Run Selection As Macro Executes the selected macro commands. New Macro Opens a new Untitled document window ready for you to enter the code for a Perl Script or Nisus Writer Express macro.
34 The Nisus Writer Express Menus (Help Menu) Getting Started Next Window Brings the document window immediately behind the current window to the front. The current active window becomes the last window. Last Window Brings the document window at the bottom of the pile to the top. The current active window becomes the second window. Help Menu Nisus Writer Express Help Opens the Apple Help Viewer with Nisus Writer Express Help.
Creating Documents Now that you’ve had a grand tour and a brief description of the menu commands of the Nisus Writer Express working environment you are ready to begin creating and editing your documents. This is the major portion of the documentation. It describes all the tools you need to create basic printable documents. Writing and Editing ............................................................................ 35 Formatting Documents ................................................................
36 Writing and Editing Writing in Multiple Languages Though it is invisible, “Language” is an attribute of your text. If applied correctly, changing the language of a portion of the text changes the • • • • input method (keyboard), dictionary and/or thesaurus (if there is one for that language), font (if appropriate), QuickFix typo and related corrections (if you have set them).
Creating Documents Figure 17 The Languages portion of the Preferences dialog 37
38 Writing and Editing Figure 18 The “More” portion of the Languages Preferences 3. Select any language in the column of available languages to customize its behavior in Nisus Writer Express. 4. From the Spelling pop-up menu choose the appropriate spelling checker dictionary. 5. 6. 7. You can choose from among any of the dictionaries you have in your System (Apple’s own dictionary or those available via CocoAspell or Spell Catcher
Creating Documents ☞ 39 Because standard European style Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, etc.) are almost always available in all fonts; these will display in your primary font even if you choose Do not change the font, and your second language needs to display the majority of its characters in the secondary font. 8. Click the button beneath the Secondary font pop-up menu to choose a secondary font if appropriate for writing in that language. This opens the Font panel illustrated in Figure 85 on page 99.
40 Writing and Editing • Language pop-up menu in the Language palette of the Tooldrawer Figure 21 The Language pop-up menu in the Language palette (shows the Thesaurus when a word is spelled correctly) • ☞ Language submenu of the Format menu. For quick access to any of your languages you can assign a keyboard shortcut as explained in “Assign Menu Keys to Menu Commands” on page 235. Write in a different language (to switch languages) 1.
Creating Documents 41 Figure 22 The change direction of document dialog 2. Choose the option you want. In either case, Nisus Writer Express will switch the display of the ruler as well as the indent and outdent buttons on the Toolbar. Figure 23 The right to left ruler and Indent/Outdent buttons 3. Type your text.
42 Writing and Editing Have the period appear correctly in a left to right sentence that ends with a right to left word • The problem… as received by technical support: First I write English then אבל. עבריתthe עבריתcomes out on the wrong side of the period.
Creating Documents 43 Insert a right to left table in a left to right section You can adjust the direction of the tables using the Paragraph palette. ☞ New tables derive their direction from the direction you have set for your section (or the document if you only have one section). Therefore, if you insert a table while in right to left text of a left to right section or document, the insert table pop-up menu and the actual table display in left to right. 1. Select all the cells in the table. 2.
44 Copying Text Writing and Editing Select using the keyboard You can use your keyboard to select various amounts of text. Selecting text using the keyboard one character 1 . one word To select forward… one line 14 . press… to end of line A 1 . 6 1 .
Creating Documents ▶ Writing and Editing 45 Choose Copy Text Only from the Copy submenu of the Edit menu (or from the Clipboard menu on the Statusbar) to copy only the text, but no formatting information. This is useful for transferring text from Nisus Writer Express to other applications where you want the text to appear with the current attributes in those applications.
46 Pasting Text Writing and Editing Choose Append Cut from the Cut submenu of the Edit menu (or as you press 4 from the Clipboard menu on the Statusbar) to remove the current selection and insert it at the end of whatever is stored in the current Clipboard. As explained in the section on Drag and Drop, you can simply drag a selection from one location to another in the current document or across documents.
Creating Documents Writing and Editing 47 bottom of the Edit menu or from the Clipboard Tag on the Statusbar, or from the Clipboards Preferences of Nisus Writer Express. ☞ While you can store many different items on the various Clipboards, only one Clipboard is active for cutting and pasting at a time. This Clipboard is called the Current Clipboard. When copying and pasting from other applications, Nisus Writer Express uses the current Clipboard.
48 Using the Clipboards Writing and Editing Copying and Pasting Styled Text When you copy formatted text and then paste it into an area with other formatting Nisus Writer Express pastes in the text with the attributes as it existed in that text’s original location. To override this behavior choose the commands Copy Text Only or Paste Text Only as explained above. Creating Lists Nisus Writer Express enables you to create various kinds of lists that automatically appear and/or increment.
Creating Documents Writing and Editing Figure 26 The Lists submenu of the Format menu Figure 27 The List button on the Toolbar Figure 28 The Lists palette Insert a bulleted list 1. Choose Bullet List from the Lists submenu of the Format menu. 2. Begin typing. Each time you press <, your new paragraph will begin with a bullet.
50 Creating Lists Writing and Editing End a bulleted list ▶ Choose None from the Lists submenu of the Format menu. Apply bullets to a series of paragraphs 1. Select the paragraphs you want to have bulleted. 2. Choose Bullet List from the Lists submenu of the Format menu. If you put your insertion point inside the series of bullets, each time you press <, your new paragraph will begin with a bullet. Nisus Writer Express supplies a variety of bullet styles.
Creating Documents Writing and Editing 51 Begin using the next level of a list Each list style begins at whatever number or letter you have determined in the Lists palette. The numbers (or letters) increment every time you press <. Each list style consists of a cascading series of numbers as illustrated in the Style Sheet view in Figure 30 on page 52. 1. When your insertion point is at the end of a paragraph which is part of an automatically incrementing list, press <. 2. Press @.
52 Creating Lists Writing and Editing Figure 30 List Styles explained Modify list styles You can modify list styles in the same way you modify any other styles in Nisus Writer Express as explained in “Modify a style” on page 86. You can use any of the palettes to modify the font, size and style of the number.
Creating Documents Writing and Editing Figure 31 The List Style portion of the Style Sheet view (with the List’s palette) Use list styles to automatically number figures, tables, etc. In Nisus Writer Express you can have as many automatically numbered items as you like. All you need do is create a new list style for each set of numbered objects (as in this document, which has “figures” and “tables” as well as numbered instructions). 1.
54 Creating Lists Writing and Editing Figure 32 Creating a numbered list style You would probably want to apply some identifying text to appear before the number. 7. Select the Level 1 item in the List style’s hierarchy. 8. Open the Lists palette and type 9. Figure in the Before Text text edit box. Press @ or T to confirm your entry as illustrated in Figure 33 below.
Creating Documents Writing and Editing 55 Recovering from Mistakes Undo an action ▶ Choose Undo from the Edit menu. You can undo an unlimited number of actions! Redo an action Choose Redo from the Edit menu. Not only can you undo your previous actions, you can also redo them. Redo—the opposite of Undo —(believe it or not) undoes your undo. It puts your commands back into effect. You can continue redoing all the commands in the undo list until it is empty.
56 Saving Files Writing and Editing Saving files Nisus Writer Express offers you several ways to save a document. You can ignore saving your documents entirely. Nisus Writer Express (with the Autosave preference turned on) automatically gives your document a name, based on the content of the first line, and stores the file in the following folder ~/Documents/Nisus Documents ☞ ☞ You can easily find and open these documents using the Document Manager illustrated in Figure 81 on page 95.
Creating Documents Writing and Editing 57 If one or more of the above formats does not mean anything to you, you probably do not need it. Save files automatically in the Nisus Writer Express Document Manager 1. Choose Preferences… from the Nisus Writer Express menu. 2. Click General and Check the Autosave every X minutes box. Nisus Writer Express keeps track of how long you work on your files.
Formatting Documents This portion of the manual describes how to define the way your document looks.
60 Structuring paragraphs Remove a character attribute from your text ................................ 91 Remove a style from your document ........................................... 91 Resolve conflicts between Styles ................................................
Creating Documents Formatting Documents 61 Structuring paragraphs This section describes the different ways you can define the appearance of paragraphs. When in page view, all paragraphs appear within the margins you set (outlined as the gray line around the area of the page). When in Draft View and Full Screen view, Nisus Writer Express allows your text to run as far to the right of the document window as you wish.
62 Structuring paragraphs Formatting Documents Figure 37 The First Line In/Outdent marker relative to the Tail Line Wrap Indicator (outdent or hanging indent) Quickly indent or outdent a selected range of paragraphs ▶ Select the range of paragraphs you wish to modify and click the Indent or Outdent button on the Toolbar.
Creating Documents Formatting Documents Set the text wrap area ▶ Drag the First Line Indent and/or the Right Indent marker across the ruler and release the mouse button where you want the lines of your paragraph to wrap. Figure 40 The First Line Indent in various positions relative to the Left Indent marker You can drag the First Line Indent marker independently of the Left Indent marker.
64 Figure 44 The Text Wrap area Structuring paragraphs Formatting Documents
Creating Documents Formatting Documents 65 Set the text wrap area numerically 1. Double click any of the indent markers. 2. Enter the settings you want in the Edit Line Wraps and Indent dialog that opens. Figure 45 The Edit Line Wraps and Indent dialog in a left to right section Figure 46 The Edit Line Wraps and Indent dialog in a right to left section 3. Click OK. Set the text wrap area using the keyboard 1.
66 Structuring paragraphs Formatting Documents Figure 47 The Paragraph palette ▶ Click alignment buttons on the Paragraph palette. Alignment Buttons on the Character Palette Left justify Center justify Click to align text along the left indent marker. Click to center text around the midpoint between the first line indent and the right indent for the first line of a paragraph and between the two indent markers for all subsequent lines.
Creating Documents Formatting Documents Figure 48 Example of Left Justification (with show invisibles turned on) Figure 49 Example of Center Justification (with show invisibles turned on) 67
68 Structuring paragraphs Figure 50 Example of Right Justification (with show invisibles turned on) Figure 51 Example of Full Justification (with show invisibles turned on) Formatting Documents
Creating Documents Formatting Documents 69 Set spacing between lines Line height, known to typesetters as leading (because of the pieces of lead placed between the lines of type) refers to the vertical distance between the top of one line and the top of the following line. Use options of the Spacing portion of the Paragraph palette illustrated in Figure 52 below to change the spread between lines, above paragraphs and below selected paragraphs.
70 Structuring paragraphs Formatting Documents Set spacing between paragraphs The space Before (above) paragraph stepper affects the space between the first line of the selected paragraph(s) and the last line of the preceding paragraph. Figure 53 Space Before (Above) Paragraph (with show invisibles turned on) Click the “steppers” to apply varying amounts of spacing you want between paragraphs or type the number of points appropriate in the text edit box to the left of each stepper.
Creating Documents Formatting Documents 71 Control how paragraphs split and stick together If you use Nisus Writer Express to put text on paper, you will probably want to make sure that the printed version of your file looks good. Among the concerns are whether headings remain with the paragraphs they introduce and other, similar issues.
72 Structuring paragraphs Formatting Documents Set tabs Use tabs to align columns of text. Pressing @ lines up the text that follows at the next tab indicated above the ruler. Nisus Writer Express offers four types of tabs you can place on the ruler. The tabs differ in the manner in which they align text. Automatic tabs appear every half inch after the last manually set tab. Preset tabs The Tab menu Figure 55 Preset tabs above the ruler (with show invisibles turned on) 1.
Creating Documents Formatting Documents 73 Figure 57 Tab stop justification (with show invisibles turned on; with and without leader) Nisus Writer Express places no limit to the number of tabs you can set on a ruler. If you do not set any tabs, you can use the built-in tab feature. Built-in tabs are left aligned. Use leader tabs In tables of contents, indexes and columns of numbers you may want to have something to lead the reader’s eyes from one part of tabbed text to the next.
74 Structuring paragraphs Formatting Documents Figure 58 Default Leader Tab Settings sheet You can choose from a wide variety of graphic underline options from the Leader Tab Settings sheet. Figure 59 Default Leader Tab underline pop-up menu 5. Click OK.
Creating Documents Formatting Documents 75 Move a tab indicator using the mouse Drag the Tab Indicator to its new location. You can select multiple Tab Indicators then move them simultaneously if you press 1 or A as you click the Tab Indicators. ▶ Nisus Writer Express displays a vertical line to indicate where the tab will align the text. Move a tab indicator using the keyboard 1. Select any of the tab indicators (either individually, or more than one by pressing 1 or A). 2.
76 Structuring paragraphs Formatting Documents Figure 61 The Edit Tab dialog Remove a tab Indicator ▶ Drag the Tab Indicator off the ruler, or, select the ones you want to remove and press ⌫ (the delete key). Select multiple Tabs by pressing 1 or A as you click the tab, or select them all by pressing 4 as you click any tab.
Creating Documents Formatting Documents 77 Format Characters You can add font, size, and style characteristics to text. Nisus Writer Express lists all the fonts you have that your version of the OS can display. These are generally in any of the following folders /Library/Fonts ~/Library/Fonts /Network/Library/Fonts /System/Library/Fonts and any fonts in the Classic System Folder/Fonts so long as they are not being managed by a Classic (pre OS X) font management tool.
78 Format Characters Formatting Documents Change the font of characters 1. Select the text you wish to change. 2. Using the Character palette in the Writing set inside the Tooldrawer, choose the font you want from the Family pop-up menu. Or 1. Select the text you want to have a different font. 2. Choose the font you want from the Font submenu of the Format menu. You can choose from any font you have loaded in your System. The selected text appears in the chosen font.
Creating Documents Formatting Documents Scroll through a longer list of fonts ▶ Drag the resize tab at the bottom of the Character palette down to display a longer list of available fonts. If you know the name of the font you want, you can click and select the font name in the Family display and type the first few characters. Nisus Writer Express uses “auto-fill” to sense what font you want, displaying the closest match (in alphabetical order).
80 Format Characters Formatting Documents Figure 67 The Dropper with something in it (after clicking in text) 2. While the Dropper is “full”, click and drag your mouse to select the text to which you want to apply the attributes. 3. Repeat step 3 until you no longer want to duplicate attributes. 4. Click anywhere in your text, or click the dropper button. You have now left the attribute duplication mode.
Creating Documents Formatting Documents 81 Formatting Documents using Style Sheets An introduction to Style Sheets Nisus Writer Express has multiple ways of handling the various possible combinations of fonts, sizes, colors and paragraph formats, languages and other character attributes. While the vast majority of word processors allow you to define styles that apply to entire paragraphs, in Nisus Writer Express you can also apply a collection of attributes to a single character.
82 Formatting Documents using Style Sheets Formatting Documents Figure 68 The Styles palette enlarged The styles present in the shipped Nisus New File consist of three types character level, paragraph level and note level styles. They appear in the Styles palette (except for the note styles) and in the menu sorted alphabetically by level. Many of these supplied styles use standard names and formatting common in HTML documents. The name of the style of the current selection is highlighted in gray.
Creating Documents Formatting Documents • Footnote Reference Used for your footnotes; • • Strong Use to emphasize smaller amounts of your text with bold; Endnote Use to determine the display of the text of your endnotes. This is the style already present when you insert an endnote and your insertion point is in the endnote area; • Footnote Use to determine the display of the text of your footnotes.
84 Formatting Documents using Style Sheets Formatting Documents Figure 70 The Style Sheet view The Style Sheet view lists all the styles of the document in a panel along the left side of the window (that you can hide or reveal) in alphabetical order grouped by Character Styles followed by Paragraph Styles and then Note Styles and, finally, List Styles. You can display all styles or a subset of them by clicking the chevron to the right of that section.
Creating Documents Formatting Documents Figure 71 The Normal style in Style Sheet view Beneath the sample text, in clearly readable “bubbles”, are all the attributes that make up that style. You can click to select and delete any of the attributes you do not want as part of the style. You can use the tools of the Character and Paragraph palettes (among others) to make the changes you want.
86 Formatting Documents using Style Sheets Formatting Documents Choose the style’s name from the Character Style and/or Paragraph Style submenus of the Format menu. ▶ Click that style’s name once in the Styles palette. ▶ Choose the style’s name from the Character or Paragraph Tag pop-up menu on the Statusbar. When you apply a paragraph style Nisus Writer Express removes certain attributes that may already be associated with the text and substitutes the attributes of the style you are applying.
Creating Documents Formatting Documents • • • • • • Left Indent 0 Line Spacing 1 lin Paragraph Spacing After 6 Paragraph Spacing Before 0 Text Alignment Left Text Color Black Heading 1 style is based on Normal. To distinguish it from Normal you only need to designate • • • • • • Bold Font Size 14 pt Font Lucida Grande Paragraph Spacing After 0 Paragraph Spacing Before 6 All other attributes will remain the same as those for Normal. Heading 2 style is based on Heading 1.
88 Formatting Documents using Style Sheets Formatting Documents Remove a keyboard shortcut to your style as you edit it 1. Click your insertion point in the Shortcut field. 2. Press the x key. Change the sample text that illustrates your style The right side of the Style Sheet view has a window with a string of text.
Creating Documents Formatting Documents 89 Figure 74 The attribute “bubbles” of the Style Sheet view illustrated in Figure 73 above with “Line Spacing” selected Add or modify attributes associated with your style 1. Click the name of the Style you want to modify in the panel on the left of the window. 2. Make the changes you want using the appropriate menus or palettes.
90 Formatting Documents using Style Sheets Formatting Documents Figure 75 The new paragraph style based on the selection 2. Give the style a unique name. 3. Modify the style’s attributes as explained in “Modify a style” on page 86. Select a range of text with a particular style You may have your insertion point in a string of text of a particular style and you want to assign a different style to that.
Creating Documents Formatting Documents 91 Remove a style’s attributes from selected text You may have a document with styles associated with text that you no longer want. You can easily remove that Style from the text. 1. Click your insertion point inside any area of text of the Paragraph Level Style which you wish to remove. 2.
92 Formatting Documents using Style Sheets Formatting Documents Figure 78 The “style is currently used” dialog You should consider carefully how you want to proceed. Resolve conflicts between Styles You can copy and paste text with its associated styles from one document to another. Depending on what you have set in your General preferences of Nisus Writer Express (as explained in “Using the General Preferences to Control the Application” on page 219) you have a variety of choices.
Setting Up a Document’s Page This portion of the manual describes how to set up your document, using the options in the Preferences and the Page Setup dialog. Understanding template (stationery) documents .................................... 93 Set “defaults” for new files ......................................................... 95 Edit your Nisus New File ......................................................... 100 See the Nisus New File in the Finder .........................................
94 Setting Up a Document’s Page Figure 80 Saving a file as a document template 3. Name the file what you want. 4. Save the file in any location you want (preferably some place where you’ll remember you left it). 5. Click Save as illustrated in Figure 80.
Creating Documents Setting Up a Document’s Page Set “defaults” for new files Nisus Writer Express enables you to set your preferences for new documents in a variety of ways. To set any preferences for Nisus Writer Express choose Preferences… from the Nisus Writer Express menu Figure 81 The General section of the Preferences dialog In the General preferences pane you can ▶ set the side from which the Tooldrawer opens (right or left). ▶ choose what happens when Nisus Writer Express activates.
96 Setting Up a Document’s Page Figure 82 A word completions list ▶ ▶ ▶ ▶ set ▶ when in Full Screen view, how long it takes to display the Menu Bar (and the Dock) when moving the mouse to the top of the screen. set what percentage of the screen’s width Full Screen view uses. determine how many documents Nisus Writer Express keeps in the Open Recent submenu of the File menu.
Creating Documents Setting Up a Document’s Page Figure 83 The View portion of the New File preferences pane In the View portion of the New File preferences pane you can: ▶ Choose Draft View, Page View or Style Sheet from the View pop-up menu to determine the mode in which your new file opens. ▶ Choose Centimeters (cm), Inches (in), Millimeters (mm), Picas (pc), or Points (pt) from the (measurement) Units pop-up menu to determine what your ruler displays.
98 Setting Up a Document’s Page Figure 84 The Format portion of the New File preferences pane In the Format portion of the New File preferences pane you can ▶ Choose the Style you want your New file to be in by choosing that Style from the Use Style popup menu. ☞ To learn more about how to use styles in your document see “Formatting Documents using Style Sheets” on page 81. ▶ Choose the language you want your New file to be in by choosing that language from the Language pop-up menu.
Creating Documents Setting Up a Document’s Page Figure 85 The Font panel ▶ ▶ Check any options you want for Bold and/or Italic. Click Color to open and choose a color from the Colors panel as illustrated in Figure 86 below. Figure 86 The Colors panel ▶ ☞ Click the alignment and enter the values you want for line and paragraph spacing in the area provided. All New documents will have the formatting you set in this preference.
100 Setting Up a Document’s Page Edit your Nisus New File If you want to modify your Nisus New File, for example change the margins or add information (such as the page number variables) you need to make these alterations in the actual file. 1. Click Edit File… in the Advanced portion of the New File preferences pane. 2. Make the changes as desired. 3. Save and close the file.
Creating Documents Setting Up a Document’s Page 101 See the Nisus New File in the Finder ▶ Click Reveal in Finder in the Advanced portion of the New File preferences pane. Figure 88 Location of the Nisus New File in the Finder Use an existing file as a Nisus New File When you choose New from the File menu, Nisus Writer Express looks for a template document called “Nisus New File.dot” in the Nisus Writer folder inside the Application Support folder which is in the Library folder of your User folder.
102 Setting Up a Document’s Page Figure 89 The Advanced portion of the New File preferences pane showing a different Nisus New File selected Nisus Writer Express indicates the location of the file in the field at the top of the preferences pane. Create a Nisus New File You can create any file you like and save it as your Nisus New File. The Nisus New File is a special case of a template or stationery file.
Creating Documents Setting Up a Document’s Page 103 Figure 90 The Save As dialog for a Nisus New File 4. Name the file Nisus New File. 5. Choose Document Template from the File Format pop-up menu. 6. Navigate to the appropriate location on your hard drive 7. <~/Library/Application Support/Nisus Writer/> as indicated in Figure 90 above. Click Save.
104 Setting Up a Document’s Page Figure 91 The Printing portion of the Print & Fax System Preference pane of Tiger ☞ You can override these settings for any document you want in the Page Setup dialog in Nisus Writer Express.
Creating Documents Setting Up a Document’s Page Figure 92 The default page setup dialog Reduce or enlarge the printed area The number you type in the Scale box of the Page Setup dialog scales only the text not the page. ▶ Enter the value you want in the Scale text edit box and click OK. Determine the orientation of the printed page 1. Choose Page Setup… from the Print submenu of the File menu. ▶ Click portrait for standard letter formatting.
106 Setting Up a Document’s Page Figure 95 The Custom Paper Size dialog of the Page Setup dialog Your custom paper size then appears at the bottom of the Paper Size pop-up menu. Set the margins of your document You can set the margins of your Nisus Writer Express document in a variety of ways visually, numerically or by “stepping” through pre-set increments. ☞ All controls of your margins are set on a per-section basis.
Creating Documents Setting Up a Document’s Page 107 Figure 96 Setting the margins visually Set the margins numerically You can change the location of the margins by typing the precise locations you want in the Margins palette of Nisus Writer Express. Because you make these changes numerically and not visually, you do not need to have your document displayed in Page View to proceed so you can see the result. 1.
108 Setting Up a Document’s Page The steppers increase and decrease in increments of • • • • • ☞ .10 cm .10 inches .10 mm .10 pc .10 pt This increases or decrease the margins of all selected sections relative to one another by the increments adjusted in the steppers. Mirror page placement You may want to print your document for binding so that the text appears on both sides of a piece of paper.
Creating Documents Setting Up a Document’s Page 109 Set the number of columns Nisus Writer Express can display your text in columns. All of Nisus Writer Express’ columns are what are known as “snaking columns.” This means that the column text continues from the bottom of one column to the top of the next (i.e. not “independent”). Columns are set on a per-section basis. The Nisus New File is a one-column document. Each section of a document can have only one column format.
110 Setting Up a Document’s Page Figure 100 Column text balanced ☞ The gutter controlled is that to the right of the column indicated in the palette. So, in the document illustrated in Figure 100 above the .25 inch gutter refers to the space between the second and third columns. Balance column text Nisus Writer Express can balance the amount of text in the columns of the last page of your document as illustrated in Figure 100 above. 1. Open the Columns palette. 2. Click Balance Column Text.
Creating Documents Setting Up a Document’s Page 111 Using the Page Borders palette to put a line around the edge of your page The Page Borders palette illustrated in Figure 101 below functions essentially the same as the Table Cell Borders palette discussed in “Make your tables stand out” beginning on page 157, except that it has fewer edges it can modify and controls the borders of the entire page. You can determine where the border should appear.
112 Figure 102 Page Border set at Page Edge Figure 103 Page Border set at Text Margin Setting Up a Document’s Page
Creating Documents Figure 104 Page Border set at Header Margin Setting Up a Document’s Page 113
Headers and Footers This portion of the manual contains step-by-step instructions that explain how to include headers and footers in your document, and how to use automatic numbering to display page numbers in your documents. These sections include Creating Headers and Footers ............................................................ Insert the same header or footer for all pages ............................. Insert a header or a footer for even numbered pages ...................
116 Headers and Footers Figure 105 The Click for Header/Footer areas of the Nisus Writer Express window Figure 106 The Header/Footer palette appears when you click in the header or footer area ☞ The Header/Footer palette “resides” in the Sections set of palettes by default.
Creating Documents Headers and Footers 117 and the Header/Footer palette is visible at the bottom. However, if the Tooldrawer is closed, when you click in a header or footer the Header/Footer palette appears floating. Figure 107 The Header/Footer palette 3. Use the various tools available in the Tooldrawer to position the contents of the header or footer.
118 Headers and Footers Insert a header or a footer for even numbered pages 1. If you have not already prepared your document for “reflected margins” as explained in “Mirror 2. 3. 4. page placement” on page 108, open the Tooldrawer and select the Sections palette group from the icons at the top, or, choose Section from the Palettes submenu of the Window menu as explained in “Set the margins numerically” on 107. Click Use Facing Pages.
Creating Documents Headers and Footers 119 Editing Headers and Footers Once you have added headers and/or footers to your document you may want to edit them. Some people like to work in Draft View or Full Screen view which allows the text to flow across the full width of the monitor without regard to margins, line wraps and page breaks. Without visible page breaks, headers and footers (which are, by definition, aspects of pages) do not appear in Draft View or Full Screen view.
120 Headers and Footers Move a header or footer higher or lower on the page The headers and footers hug the top and bottom of the document window respectively. You can move headers and footers in relation to their physical position on the page. 1. Click in the header or footer. 2. Drag the top margin line higher or lower on the page. The pointer changes shape to indicate that it moves the margins and a “tool tip” appears indicating the distance from the margin to the edge of the paper.
Creating Documents Headers and Footers 121 Move a header or footer higher or lower in relation to the text of your document 1. Click in the header or footer. 2. Drag the inside line of the header or footer higher or lower on the page. The pointer changes shape to indicate that it moves the margins and a “tool tip” appears indicating the distance from the margin to the edge of the paper. Figure 110 Moving the inner edge of the footer margin 3. Click back into the document.
122 Headers and Footers Numbering Pages When in Page View, Nisus Writer Express keeps track of the page numbers of your documents and displays them (the “current” out of the “total”) in the left edge of the Statusbar. Figure 111 Page number display and its menu Nisus Writer Express also provides customizable tools for automatically numbering objects. The most common form is page numbering. You will find these automatic numbering features in the Automatic Number submenu of the Insert menu.
Creating Documents Headers and Footers 123 Figure 112 Aligning text inside the footer area Restart page numbering for a new section 1. Choose either Next Page, Odd Page, Even Page or Same Page from the Section Break 2. 3. 4. 5. submenu of the Insert menu. Make sure your insertion point is in the new section. Open the Section palette. Click Starting Page in the Section palette. Enter the number you want to have as the first number of this section in the Section palette. Restart page numbering at 1 1.
124 Headers and Footers ☞ Be careful not to delete the Return character above the section break unless you want to remove the section divider. Display the current page number and the total number of pages in the section (or document) on every page In addition to the instructions immediately above 1. Put your insertion point in the header or footer of your document. 2. Choose Pages in Section from the Insert menu.
Graphics This portion of the manual shows you how to work with graphics. The sections include Working with Character Graphics ...................................................... Importing Graphics .......................................................................... Resize a Graphic .............................................................................. Crop a Graphic ................................................................................ Working with Floating Graphics .............
126 Graphics Figure 115 A graphic selected for resizing Working with Floating Graphics You can change any Character Graphic (or “Inline Graphic”) so that it “floats” with the text. You can make text wrap around floating graphics, or you can make text appear in front of them. You can fix a floating graphic to stay on a particular place on a specific page, or you can make them move with a paragraph. ☞ Floating graphics only appear when in Page View. Make an inline graphic into a floating graphic 1.
Creating Documents Graphics Figure 116 The Image palette default options when set to Fixed on page 2. Choose either Moves with paragraph or Fixed on page. from the Image placement pop-up menu in the Image palette. Choosing Fixed on page enables all the options for image alignment and text wrap. Align a floating graphic You can nudge a selected floating graphic one pixel at a time, using the arrow keys on the keyboard, so that it appears where you want it.
128 Graphics Floating Graphic Alignment Options Horizontal Image Alignment left center right top center bottom Text Drawn on Top of Image Text Never Appears Beside Image Text Never Appears to Left of Image Vertical (available only with Fixed on Page) Text Wrap Text Wrap Around Image Table 3 Floating graphic alignment options You can mix the options available so that a graphic is in the bottom right corner.
Creating Documents Graphics 129 The Graphic Anchor Figure 117 A floating graphic selected When you select a floating graphic its “anchor” appears. This is the spot to which the graphic is attached to your document. A dashed line appears around the perimeter of the paragraph to which it is attached (whether the paragraph has text or not). In addition a line connects the anchor to the upper left corner of the graphic.
130 Graphics Figure 118 A floating graphic beyond the margin ☞ When you select a floating graphic and 6 Click, or Right-Click a contextual menu appears with two commands: Send to Back and Bring to Font. If you have resized the graphic two additional commands appear: Restore Original Size and Restore Original Proportions.
Book Tools Nisus Writer Express supplies some special tools for creating larger, more complex documents. These include the ability to separate the document into various sections, and the use of certain variables, footnotes, and tables. Creating Sections In Your Document .................................................. Numbering Sections ......................................................................... Footnotes and Endnotes ....................................................................
132 Book Tools Creating Sections In Your Document You can separate portions of your Nisus Writer Express document into different sections with varying locations of margins, number of columns, and numbering formats. These sections can begin on the following page, the next odd page, the next even page or even on the same page. Insert a new section in your document 1. Place your insertion point where you want the new section to begin. 2.
Creating Documents Book Tools 133 Footnotes and Endnotes Use footnotes and/or endnotes to refer readers to reference notes. Nisus Writer Express automatically renumbers footnotes and endnotes when you add, move, or delete them. Footnotes appear at the bottom “foot” of the page on which you insert them. Endnotes appear at the end of the document. Insert a footnote or endnote 1. Put the insertion point where you want the footnote number to appear. 2. Choose Footnote or Endnote from the Insert menu. 3.
134 Book Tools Figure 119 The Notes Reference Styles area of the Style Sheet In this portion of the Style Sheet view, you can control the • • Style on which the notes text are “Based on”; Keyboard shortcut used to apply the Style. Use an asterisk or other custom symbol to mark several footnotes and or endnotes In addition to using numbers sequentially for footnotes and endnotes, you can use an asterisk or other custom character to mark several or all footnotes or endnotes with the same symbol. 1.
Creating Documents Book Tools 135 Figure 121 The Custom Footnote Character sheet 5. Click OK. Edit a custom symbol that marks footnotes and or endnotes You can change the symbol you have used at any time 1. Select the note reference(s) in the body of the document. You can select a range of text use non-contiguous selection to affect a number of notes at once. 2. Click and hold your mouse on the Footnote tag on the Statusbar. 3.
136 Book Tools Figure 123 The Footnote area of the Style Sheet in its shipped state In this portion of the Style Sheet view, you can control a wide variety of options including: • • • the style on which the notes text are “Based on”; the keyboard Shortcut used to apply the style; the Place where the note appears… if the notes are endnotes you can choose between • • End of Document End of Section if they are footnotes your only choice is • • • • • Bottom of Page; the notes can appear One Note Per Li
Creating Documents Book Tools 137 A wide variety of number formats are available.
138 Book Tools While in the primary text area of your document: ▶ Select the footnote or endnote reference you wish to change, press 6 and choose Convert to Endnote or Convert to Footnote (depending). While in the notes areas of your document: Change a footnote to an endnote 1. Click your insertion point anywhere in the text of that footnote 2. Choose Endnote from the Notes Tag on the Statusbar. Change an endnote to a footnote 1. Click your insertion point anywhere in the text of that endnote 2.
Creating Documents Book Tools 139 Tables What is a table? A table is a means of presenting a group of related data in a coherent, structured form. Tables are used to • • • • • summarize large amounts of data compare data for two or more cases group complex data so that relationships are clear convey statistics about the underlying data list a full matrix of related data. Tables have a wide variety of uses and, because of the divergent uses, they may take on many different styles as well.
140 Book Tools When To Use Tables Tables should be used when: The information is not suitable for graphing Tables should not be used if: The data clearly lends itself to a visual representation (graphs, for example). The actual data values are more important than a graphical summary. The information can clearly be broken into related parts and groups. The data cannot be organized into meaningful groups. The data contains extensive text that must be read rather than scanned.
Creating Documents Book Tools 141 Figure 126 The Insert Table sheet 1. Choose New Table… from the Table menu. 2. Click to choose the type of table you want from the options at the top of the dialog: 3. 4. 5. 6. • • • • no headers row and column headers column headers only row headers only. Type the number of columns you want, or, use the stepper to the right of the number of Columns field to increase or decrease the number.
142 Book Tools Figure 127 Creating a table from the Insert Table button ☞ In right to left documents or sections of documents, the primary tools relevant to tables appear for right to left editing. Figure 128 A right to left table You can add or subtract rows and/or columns at any time once you have inserted the table as explained on page 147. Enter text in a table ▶ ▶ Click your insertion point in the appropriate field and type or paste your text or graphic.
Creating Documents Book Tools 143 Create a table with pre-existing text You can create a table with two kinds of pre-existing “tab-delimited” text that may be on your Clipboard (copied from another application), or text that may be in your document. 1. Click where you want the table to appear and choose Paste from the Edit menu. 2. Select the text you want to have appear in table form and choose Convert to Table from the Table menu.
144 Book Tools ▶ This selects all cells contiguous with the one in which your insertion point appears, even if they are merged with other rows. Click your insertion point inside any cell and type A a a. This selects all the cells of the table. Determine the alignment (position) of a table in the document Tables align independently of the text of your document. ▶ Click the alignment you wish to have using the appropriate button in the Table palette.
Creating Documents Book Tools Figure 130 The text alignment buttons of the Table Cells palette Or ▶ Choose Align Left, Align Right, Center, or Justified for horizontal alignment or Top, Bottom, or Middle for vertical alignment.
146 Book Tools Align text in table cells along the decimal point Numbers often need to be aligned along a decimal point. ☞ You would probably want to follow this procedure with Invisibles turned on (choose Show Invisibles from the View menu). 1. Create your table. 2. Click your insertion point in the top cell of the column to be aligned by the decimal point. 3. Make sure the Ruler displays and choose Decimal from the Tab menu. 4.
Creating Documents Book Tools 147 Add cells to a table If, as you work on your table, you determine that you need additional cells, either as rows or columns, you can add them at any time. ▶ Click your insertion point in the cell beside which you want to add cells and click the appropriate button in the Table palette.
148 Book Tools Remove cells from a table ▶ ▶ Click your insertion point in the row or column (or select the rows or columns or cells) you wish to remove and click the appropriate button in the Table palette. Or Click your insertion point in the row or column (or select the rows or columns or cells) you wish to remove and choose Rows, Columns, or Cells from the Delete submenu of the Table menu. Merge cells You can merge multiple, contiguous, cells into one.
Creating Documents Book Tools 149 Figure 135 Merged cells ☞ Note that when you merge cells Nisus Writer Express does not maintain the normal flow of the text. Be careful what you ask for. Split cells Merging cells merges all selected cells into one, splitting cells offers a variety of options.
150 Book Tools Figure 137 The Split Cells button on the Table Cells palette ▶ Or Put your insertion point inside the cell you wish to split (or select the cells (rows or columns) you wish to split) and choose Split Cells… from the Table menu. Resize a cell You can make a table smaller than is useful ! Or make a table span multiple pages. The tiny “one-celled” table in the sentence following “Resize a cell” above cannot be used for anything. You can resize any cell in a Nisus Writer Express table. 1.
Creating Documents Book Tools Figure 138 A very long table Figure 139 Expanding the height of a cell in a table ☞ The way in which you align your table determines the way in which cells expand and contract horizontally. • The cells of left aligned tables expand to the right.
152 Book Tools • • The cells of right aligned tables expand to the left. The cells of center aligned tables expand from the center out. Equalize column widths You may have a variety of cells of varying widths, to equalize them: 1. Select the cells you wish to equalize. 2. Click the Balance Cell Widths button on the Table Cells palette or choose Distribute Columns Evenly from the Table menu.
Creating Documents Book Tools 153 Figure 143 The same table with cell widths equalized (notice the word “common”) ☞ To Equalize cells in which you have text that should not wrap (as in the illustrations Figure 142 and Figure 143 above), use the Fit to Contents tool as explained in “Cause the table to resize to fit its contents (and settings)” on page 154. Equalize row heights You may have done something to cause the height of a variety of rows to differ. You can equalize them.
154 Book Tools I As sat within down one evening a small café, A forty year old waitress to me these words did say: I see that are a logger, and not just a common bum, ’Cause nobody but a logger stirs his with his thumb.” you coffee Table 10 Table 9 above with cells heights distributed evenly Cause the table to resize to fit its contents (and settings) You can resize any column to have its contents fit the cells by dragging the appropriate line.
Creating Documents Book Tools 155 Cause the table to resize to fit the full extent of the page You can cause the table and its contents to resize to fit the width of the page. 1. Click anywhere in the table to activate it. 2. Click the Fit to Page button on the Table Cells palette or choose Fit to Page from the Table menu. Figure 145 Result of choosing Fit to Page As with Fit to Contents, Fit to Page does not affect the height of rows unless it causes some wrapped text to “unwrap”.
156 Book Tools Create a title for a table A column header at the top of your table makes a perfect location for a table title. 1. Create a “column header” as explained above. 2. Merge the cells. 3. Set the area off with some border or color. The Frozen Logger by James Stevens As within A to I and ’Cause stirs I sat forty me see not nobody his year these that just down a old words are a but with you coffee one small waitress did a common a his evening café, say: logger, bum, logger thumb.
Creating Documents Book Tools 157 3. Select the contents of the Padding field. 4. Enter the value you want. 5. Press T to confirm your choice. Figure 146 The Padding portion of the Table Cells palette Padding Illustrated Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of Nisus Software Inc. Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of Nisus Software Inc. The above cell is fully The above cell is fully justified with 14 points of justified with zero padding padding.
158 Book Tools Figure 147 The Deselect All button ▶ Use the button in the upper left of the Table Cell Borders palette to clear all selected buttons. Figure 148 The Table Cell Borders palette Select which lines to modify 1. Put your insertion point in the cell (or select the cells) you want to modify. 2. Click to select the buttons of the lines you wish to modify.
Creating Documents Book Tools 159 Determine the thickness of the lines 1. Put your insertion point in the cell (or select the cells) you want to modify. 2. Click to select the buttons of the lines you wish to modify. 3. Choose the thickness you want from the Thickness pop-up menu of the Table Cell Borders palette You can choose between None, Hairline, 1/2 pt (point), 3/4 pt up to 8 pt thick lines.
160 Book Tools Figure 150 The style pop-up menu of the Table Cell Borders palette Determine the color of the lines 1. Put your insertion point in the cell (or select the cells) you want to modify. 2. Click to select the buttons of the lines you wish to modify. 3. Click the Color Picker tool and choose a color from the Colors panel as illustrated in Figure 86 on page 99.
Creating Documents Book Tools 161 Using Gradients and Shading Less Here There More Table 17 A table showing horizontal and vertical gradients as well as shading Whenever you click your insertion point inside a table the Pattern pop-up menu and the Colors buttons on the Table Cells Shading palette become enabled. Figure 152 The Table Cells Shading palette in its most simple form 1. Put your insertion point in the cell (or select the cells) you want to modify. 2.
162 Book Tools Figure 153 The Pattern menu of the Table Cells Shading palette set for the bottom row, fourth column of Table 17 above (“More”)
Creating Documents Book Tools 163 Set the color of the foreground and background of a cell pattern Every pattern has a foreground and a background. You can choose the color of each of these. 1. Put your insertion point in the cell (or select the cells) you want to modify. 2. Choose the Pattern you want. In this context “pattern” may mean density of background and foreground. 3.
164 Book Tools Remove a table Nisus Writer Express supports a variety of methods for removing a table from your document. You can use the keyboard, or the mouse with the menus. These are described in Table 19 below. To Delete a Table Step 1 Using the menus Using the Keyboard Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Type 4 A to select the entire table. Press the delete key. Choose Table Click anywhere in from the Delete the table. submenu of the Table menu Put your insertion point Press the delete immediately key.
Polishing & Managing Documents This part of your Nisus Writer Express documentation contains information that helps you manage and fine tune documents. It also gives you some ideas on how to use Nisus Writer Express effectively. Displaying & Printing Documents” shows you how to use the special tools of Nisus Writer Express to make sure that your text is clean of extraneous characters.
166 Proofing Documents Using the Find what and Replace with menus ............................ Using the PowerFind Browser .................................................. PowerFind Guidelines ............................................................. Examples of putting PowerFind to use ....................................... Using PowerFind Pro ........................................................................ Exercises, or examples of putting PowerFind Pro to use ...............
Polishing & Managing Documents 167 How to Check Spelling The spelling checker checks for more than misspelled words. Check your spelling using the Language palette Nisus Writer Express can check the spelling of the word where your insertion point appears whenever you pause to think. ▶ Keep the Language palette visible (either in the Tooldrawer or on your Desktop) the Language palette unobtrusively interacts with your text. • If the word is misspelled the Language palette suggests corrections.
168 Proofing Documents Figure 155 The Language palette in Nisus Thesaurus mode Have Nisus Writer Express correct your typos as you type Nisus Writer Express can correct the spelling of many commonly misspelled words as you type. 1. Choose Preferences… from the Nisus Writer Express menu. 2. Click QuickFix. 3. Click Fix typos. To learn more about the various items QuickFix can “fix” see “Determine What QuickFix Fixes” on page 237. Set your dictionary preferences 1. 2. 3. 4.
Polishing & Managing Documents 169 Correct your spelling using the keyboard and without calling up the Spelling window You can correct your spelling without removing your hands from the keyboard. 1. Type A 4 ;. This selects the next misspelled word and draws a “menuoid” with possible corrections. Figure 156 The correct spelling menuoid 2. Press , or . to replace the misspelled word with the selected word in the list or - to select another word from the list, then press , or . to use that word.
170 Proofing Documents Figure 157 The correct spelling contextual menu Start the spelling checker 1. Open the window in which you want to check the spelling. 2. Choose Spelling Window… from the Spelling submenu of the Edit menu. 3. Click the button that corresponds to the operation you want. Figure 158 The Check Spelling dialog As the spelling checker window opens, it automatically searches for and selects the first misspelled word following the current insertion point.
Polishing & Managing Documents ☞ 171 You can change the color or the selection highlight in the Appearance pane of the Nisus Writer Express preferences, as explained in “Set “defaults” for new files” on page 95. Nisus Writer Express checks the words between the insertion point and the end of the document, and then checking continues from the beginning of your document to the starting point. When the whole document has been checked, the spelling checker beeps.
172 Proofing Documents Activate the Spelling floating window ▶ Click your insertion point in the “Correct” text edit box. You can then type alternative spellings in it or select various words from the “Guess” list using the arrow keys of your keyboard. Replace a misspelled word using the spelling checker When the spelling checker finds a word which is not in its dictionary, it suggests alternatives and allows you to correct it.
Polishing & Managing Documents 173 Using multiple language dictionaries Nisus Writer Express offers you access to all the dictionaries that come with OS X. Check your Apple documentation to confirm how to turn on these various capabilities. Other dictionaries are available on the Internet, for example CocoAspell . These dictionaries are best used as an attribute of the Language “style” which you apply to your text.
174 Proofing Documents Finding and Replacing Text In Nisus Writer Express, if you can describe a text pattern, you can probably find it. If you can find it, you can almost definitely change it to any other text pattern you can describe. Nisus Writer Express offers three ways to find and replace text Normal Find, PowerFind™, and PowerFind Pro. Normal Find meets the needs of most searches for words.
Polishing & Managing Documents 175 Enter something into the Replace box ▶ ▶ Choose Show Find… from the Find submenu of the Edit menu press @ and type the text you want to replace. Or Select the text you want to replace in your document, choose Copy to Replace from the Copy submenu of the Edit menu. Either find or find and replace text 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. ☞ Choose Show Find… from the Find submenu of the Edit menu. Make sure Normal Find is the Search Type. Enter what you want to find in the Find box.
176 Proofing Documents Writer Express would find only the first instance of the word (the noun not the proper noun). “I hope that the writer in you will blossom with Nisus Writer Express.” Whole Word When checked, Nisus Writer Express finds the Find Expression only if it forms an entire word. When unchecked, Nisus Writer Express finds the Find Expression even if it makes up only a portion of a word. For example, with Whole Word checked, Nisus Writer Express would not find the word “hat” in “that.
Polishing & Managing Documents • • • 177 find all UPPERCASE or Capitalized words. change the sequence of words to find all underlined words As you experiment, always remember to back up your document before trying any new procedure. You may have already used Nisus Writer Express’s standard Find and Replace feature to perform simple substitutions—for example, replacing one word with another throughout your document.
178 Proofing Documents Using the Find what and Replace with menus The Find what and Replace with menus present all the basic find and replace commands you might need to combine to create your Find or Replace Expression. In addition they contain submenus containing recently found and replaced expressions, as well as saved expressions, along with the tool to save them. ▶ Choose the commands you need from the Find what Gear pop-up menu or the Replace with Gear pop-up menu.
Polishing & Managing Documents 179 Repeat or Found # These options only appear for two Find expressions (N - M Times and N Times of the Repeat options) and in the Match expression OtherFound, or in the Replace expression OtherFound. An example appears in Figure 166 on page 182. Description ▶ This area displays the selected PowerFind expression both in its PowerFind "bubble" as well as its PowerFind Pro text form. It also includes a brief description of what the expression would find.
180 Proofing Documents Find capitalized words (a PowerFind example) 1. Open the document you need to revise and move the insertion point to the beginning of the document or type the following into a new document I went for a walk along the Atlantic City boardwalk and thought about all I had missed. A few hours earlier she had asked me to join her for a trip across New Jersey through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, the great Midwest and over the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean in California.
Polishing & Managing Documents 181 Nisus Writer Express can find all capitalized words, one at a time. Select all instances of a found expression at once ▶ Click Find All. Convert a PowerFind expression to a PowerFind Pro expression 1. Choose PowerFind Pro from the Using pop-up menu. Do this for its learning value. While you can perform many functions with the menus of PowerFind, the ability to write your expressions directly gives you much greater flexibility.
182 Proofing Documents The look-ahead verifies that the word is followed by a punctuation mark, but does not include that mark in the match. Look-behind is the same, but it verifies the nested expression exists before the following expression, rather than after. Figure 166 The OtherFound PowerFind expression Repeat Set Use the Repeat set options to find a character or wild card that appears a specified number of times. To find parts of strings, be sure to uncheck Whole Word.
Polishing & Managing Documents 183 The expression (find any A or any A followed by any B but only the first one that appears): finds A in AC and AB in ABB. 0+ 1+ Zero or more repeated occurrences (“It may or may not be there.”) One or more repeated occurrences The expression (find any A followed by any B which must be there at least one (or more) time(s)): finds AB, ABB, and ABBB, but not A or AC.
184 Proofing Documents Finding and/or replacing Non-Roman Characters Specify which Script (“language”) your text is in by choosing the appropriate language from the Scripts set. 1. Choose Special Characters… from the bottom of the Edit menu to open the Apple-supplied Characters palette as explained in “Enter Unicode text” on page 271 to find non-Roman characters. 2. In step 3 of the instructions there, instead of inserting the character in your document you will insert it into the Find or Replace window.
Polishing & Managing Documents 185 Scripts Set The Unicode standard (and the Nisus Writer Express search engine) does not have tools for searching for text in Armenian, Bengali, Bopomofo, Braille, Buhid, Cherokee, Ethiopic, Gaelic, Georgian, Hanunoo, Kannada, Khmer, Lao, Malayalam, Mongolian, Myanmar, Ogham, Oriya, Runic, Sinhala, Syriac, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Tamil, Telugu, Thaana, Tibetan, Vietnamese, and Yi.
186 Proofing Documents Any Private Use Area Matches any single character in Unicode’s Private Use Area (PUA), which is reserved for application/domain specific characters. Eg: these character codes are not standardized and could be used for any purpose. Special Positions Set Use options from the Special Positions set to determine the location of the beginning or ending of the Find expression. Start of Word Matches the start of any word.
Polishing & Managing Documents 187 Figure 168 Special Positions set of Find/Replace expressions illustrated Wild Card Set Include a wild card in your expression when you want to find one or more characters. For example, use the wild card To look for any number between 0 and 9. If you know you want to find 93, type 9 and 3 in the Find box. If you just know that your document has a two digit number, but you don’t know what it is, enter .
188 Proofing Documents Anything Any group of characters (except footnote markers), including the Return character that defines the end of a paragraph. AnyText Any group of characters (except footnote markers), excluding the Return character that defines the end of a paragraph. AnyHTMLTag Any group of characters surrounded by “<” and “/>”.
Polishing & Managing Documents 189 6. Delete the final slash “/” to finish the expression so that it looks like this 7. Here each set of the Capture and AnyDigit represents the two digits of the month followed by the slash “06/” then the day and slash “23/” and finally the year “73” the three things you want to find and switch.
190 Proofing Documents You can use this expression to find and eliminate repeated paragraphs. Change the wording of a repeated phrase containing a variable Suppose your document contains multiple entries of the phrase “whose widget code number is #,” where # represents any of fifty different widget codes. The Find and Replace expressions below change this phrase to “with widget code #” without changing actual numerical values.
Polishing & Managing Documents 191 Figure 169 The Save Expression sheet 2. Give your expression a name. Figure 170 Naming a saved expression 3. Click OK. If, however, you have gone on to other tasks and you later remember that you want to save that complex expression you can do that. 1. Click Recent Find Expressions or Recent Replace Expressions from the PowerFind column in the Find/Replace browser. 2.
192 Proofing Documents Figure 171 Saving a recent expression Once again, the Save Expression sheet appears, as in Figure 169 above. Continue as in steps 2 and 3 above. When you quit, Nisus Writer Express automatically saves your Find what and Replace with expressions. Using a saved find or replace expression ▶ Choose the saved expression you want from the Saved Expressions submenu of the Gear menu inside the Find/Replace window.
Polishing & Managing Documents 193 Figure 172 The Saved Expressions submenu Deleting a saved find or replace expression 1. Click Recent Find Expressions or Recent Replace Expressions from the PowerFind column in the Find/Replace browser. 2. Click the expression you want to delete from the Recent Find Expressions or Recent Replace Expressions column in the Find/Replace browser as illustrated in Figure 171 and click Delete.
194 Proofing Documents Using PowerFind Pro Everything you’ve learned about finding and replacing text with Normal Find and PowerFind also applies to PowerFind Pro. PowerFind Pro uses metacharacters9 to represent the wild cards and other specialized feature characters which are used in the Find/Replace window.
Polishing & Managing Documents 195 12 is the expression that you want to find (you can replace this with any other expression you want to find) + “one or more times” character Find any set of characters Suppose you want to search your document for all punctuation marks. ▶ Enter [,.;?!]+ in the Find box. [ and ] the brackets stand for a user-defined wild card, that is whatever appears within them. In this case Nisus Writer Express interprets the punctuation marks literally.
196 Proofing Documents In PowerFind Pro, the backslash changes the meaning of the character or characters that follow it. For example the character n, is not a metacharacter and has no special meaning. However, \n represents the New Line character in an expression. Parenthesized Expressions Use parentheses in PowerFind Pro Find expressions in the same manner as you do with PowerFind with these additional guidelines.
Polishing & Managing Documents 197 [^[:alpha:]_] Finds any non-alphabetic character excluding the underscore character “_” (ASCII 95 _). [[blank]] Finds either a space (ASCII (Unicode) 32) or a tab (ASCII (Unicode) 9); same as [\s \t]. \d Finds any digit from 0 through 9; same as menu command AnyDigit ([0-9])from the Wild Card menu. [[:xdigit:]] Finds any digit or alphabetic character from a to f; covers the ranges 0-9 a-f A-F; use to find hexadecimal numerals.
198 Proofing Documents \n Newline (OS X end of line character) \v Vertical Tab \f Page breaks or a form feed character (ASCII (Unicode) code 12); use \f as a replace expression to remove all page breaks created by choosing Page Break from the Insert menu as well as all the various section breaks inserted using the Section Break submenu of the Insert menu \r Return character (ASCII (Unicode) code 13) press 1 < to insert an actual Return character in an expression \s Any White Space character Repea
Polishing & Managing Documents [G-Z] 199 Finds any uppercase character except A through F PowerFind Pro Replace Expressions If a metacharacter or expression has a unique match then it can be used in constructing replacement patterns. If a metacharacter is not allowed in a particular context, Nisus Writer Express will not let you select it from the menu in PowerFind. No such restriction applies when using PowerFind Pro.
200 Proofing Documents Make sure your spaces follow the punctuation Fast typists frequently press the Space Bar before typing their punctuation. The next expression finds one or more spaces that precede any punctuation and places them after the punctuation. ▶ Find (\s)([[:punct:]]) Replace \2\1 Make sure your punctuation appears inside quotation marks Common American practice is to have commas and periods appear inside of quotation marks.
Displaying & Printing Documents This portion of the manual shows you how easy it is to give your documents a polished, professional look. The sections include Pagination ....................................................................................... Alphabetizing (sorting) Paragraphs ..................................................... Special “Styles ................................................................................. Plain Text .......................................................
202 Displaying & Printing Documents Pagination Nisus Writer Express comes preset for your new files to display with pagination turned on, ready to print your file on paper. Figure 174 The automatic page break in Nisus Writer Express Periodically you may want to enter and edit your text without concern for its formatting. In this context, you might prefer to display your document as though it were a continuous scroll rather than individual pages.
Polishing & Managing Documents Set where page breaks appear 1. Click your insertion point where you want the page break to appear. 2. Choose Page Break from the Insert menu.
204 Displaying & Printing Documents Display a document as a continuous scroll ▶ ☞ Choose Draft View or Full Screen view from the View menu. When you use Draft View or Full Screen view, Nisus Writer Express does not display headers and/or footers, or columns. Floating palettes continue to display.
Polishing & Managing Documents Figure 177 The Draft View in Nisus Writer Express with an inserted page break You can see how to have the appropriate page number appear on each page of your document by choosing Page View from the View menu and see “Numbering Pages” on page 122. See where page breaks appear Choose Page View from the View menu. In Draft View or Full Screen view Nisus Writer Express draws a color-customizable line indicating the location of the page break.
206 Displaying & Printing Documents Find page breaks in your document 1. Choose Show Find… from the Find submenu of the Edit menu. 2. Choose Any Break from the Special Characters submenu of the Gear menu in the Find/ Replace window. 3. Click Next.
Polishing & Managing Documents 207 Jump to any page in your document You can quickly jump to any page in your document. There are two methods. Jump to any page using the menus 1. Choose Go to Page… from the View menu. 2. Enter the page number to which you wish to jump. 3. Choose either Logical Page Number or Physical Page Number from the pop-up menu in the dialog. Figure 179 The Go to Page sheet and its pop-up menu 4. Click OK. ☞ You can use this method even if your document is in Draft View.
208 Displaying & Printing Documents Alphabetizing (sorting) Paragraphs It only takes Nisus Writer Express a few seconds to sort lists consisting of individual paragraphs. (Each paragraph can be as short as one word.) Paragraphs can be a blank line, a few words, a block of text, or even a graphic, followed by a Return character. • • Blank lines are placed first. Paragraphs beginning with numbers are placed ahead of those beginning with letters.
Polishing & Managing Documents 209 For example in the font Apple Chancery, the letters “f” followed by “i” and “f” followed by “l” appear differently depending on whether or not ligatures are turned on or off. Without ligatures turned on the letters are separated: f [space] i, or without the space: fi f [space] l, or without the space: fl With ligatures turned on the two characters appear as one glyph.
210 Displaying & Printing Documents ☞ The Highlight button on the Toolbar indicates the current highlight color, that is, the color which will be applied when you click it (the button), not the highlight color of any selected text. The color of selected text appears in the Highlight Tag in the Statusbar. Highlight text using a color other than the current color 1. Select the text you wish to highlight. 2.
Polishing & Managing Documents 211 How Highlight color and Background Color differ Highlight color and Background Color differ only slightly. Figure 184 Highlight color and Background Color compared • • • • • Each has a slightly different handling of newline/wrapped whitespace (as evident along the line wrap areas of the text in Figure 184 above). Microsoft Word only recognizes Highlight colors and ignores Background Colors in RTF.
212 Displaying & Printing Documents Cleaning Up Documents • • You may receive e-mail from someone who “SCREAMS” for sentences on end. You may need to edit your text and then make sure that your text wraps at the appropriate “column” number. Nisus Writer Express has the tools to help you out. Change the case of alphabetic characters Choose commands from the Convert submenu to change the case of text in a selection.
Polishing & Managing Documents 213 Working with Multiple Documents Window Basics Here are a few guidelines for working with windows • • • • The size of your monitor’s screen determines the window’s size. • To display all windows of all open applications, choose Show All from the Nisus Writer Express menu. • • To make a window bigger or smaller drag the window’s size box. The window that contains the red yellow and green buttons in its Title Bar is the active window.
214 Displaying & Printing Documents Printing Documents When you are ready to commit your document to paper choose Print from the File menu. Print an open document ▶ Choose Print… from the File menu and enter your choices in the dialog that appears. Figure 186 The Print dialog in Tiger When the dialog first appears the options come from the printer driver software you have.
Polishing & Managing Documents 215 Determine aspects of how your document prints When you print your document you have a variety of options available in the Nisus Writer Express portion of the Print Dialog. Figure 187 The Nisus Writer Express portion of the Print dialog ☞ The pop-up menu that reveals the Nisus Writer Express portion of the Print dialog has no name. ▶ Choose Nisus Writer Express from the pop-up menu inside the Print dialog where you see Copies & Pages.
216 Displaying & Printing Documents Print odd pages, then even pages You may want to print your document on both sides of a piece of paper. Make sure your margins are correct by following the instructions in “Mirror page placement” on page 108. Make sure your margins appear as you want them as explained in “Set the margins of your document” on page 106. 1. Choose Print from the File menu. 2. Choose Paper Handling from the third (un-named) pop-up menu inside the Print dialog. 3.
Polishing & Managing Documents Moving Around in Your Documents Nisus Writer Express is an excellent tool for working with large documents. However, once a document gets beyond a certain, undefined size, it becomes a bit more difficult to find your way around in it. Nisus Writer Express has a number of tools to assist you in doing just that. Many of these tools have been discussed in other parts of the User’s Guide.
Customizing & Automating Solutions You can customize almost everything about Nisus Writer Express to fit your working environment. These include subjects already described in the manual such as determining how your windows appear. The searching tools of Nisus Writer Express allow you to customize the way you find and replace text. The section beginning on page 224 discusses this capability in detail.
220 Setting Preferences Determine What Happens at Activation In addition to these settings, choose Preferences… from the Nisus Writer Express menu to set • whether files that were open when you had quit are reopened ▶ Check Reopen previously open documents on launch. • Not only can you have Nisus Writer Express reopen those files, you can set the program so that • ▶ • ▶ a new document appears whenever you start it Click Create a new document.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 221 Choose the Way in Which Files Save Nisus Writer Express offers you several ways to save a document. You can ignore saving your documents entirely. Nisus Writer Express (with the Autosave preference turned on) automatically gives your document a name based on a string of text in the file and stores the file in the folder called ~/Documents/Nisus Documents And keeps track of your files in the Document Manager as explained on page 220.
222 Setting Preferences ~/Documents/Nisus Documents/Backups This file is removed when you manually save your file by choosing Save from the File menu or you close the document and choose to discard changes (for example when you quit Nisus Writer Express). ☞ The backup file is only used in the unlikely incident of Nisus Writer Express crashing. If a crash occurs, the next time you start Nisus Writer Express a dialog appears asking if you would like to recover the backup of your autosaved file(s).
Customizing & Automating Solutions ▶ 223 From the Plain text encoding pop-up menu of the File Formats portion of the Saving preferences, choose either • • International formats: Automatic; UTF-8 (recommended), UTF-16, ASCII; Mac OS Only formats: Arabic, Central European, Cyrillic, Greek, Japanese, Hebrew, Icelandic, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Western (Mac OS Roman); • Windows Only formats: Central European (Windows Latin 2), Japanese (Windows, DOS), Korean (Windows, DOS),
224 Setting Preferences Determine the way in which files open When you open a window and resize it, the next time you choose New it appears like the preceding window did when you closed it, with • the same size and shape (to change the size and shape of new documents edit the Nisus New File as explained on page 102). • • the Toolbar displayed or not • the Ruler visible or not.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 225 Choose Various Display Options for Your Documents Nisus Writer Express has a wide variety of options that affect the display of your working environment. Some of these have been described elsewhere in the documentation. For a quick review and details on how to use those not explained elsewhere, they are collected here. You can set most of these display options in the Appearance Preferences of Nisus Writer Express.
226 Setting Preferences • • • Inserted page breaks (using the Page Break command of the Insert menu) Section breaks (using the commands of the Section Break submenu of the Insert menu) “X-ed out boxes” for “gremlins” Some are rather esoteric. You can see all of them illustrated in [Referenced content is missing.].
Customizing & Automating Solutions 227 Page Guides Turn on or off “Page Guides” to have Nisus Writer Express add (or remove) a color-customizable line around the area of the page (in Page View) which indicates the page’s margins. This also determines the display of the “Click for Header” and “Click for Footer” (and their variants) prompt that appears at the top or bottom of each page. ▶ Uncheck “Show Page Guides” to prevent the guides from appearing in new files.
228 Setting Preferences Insertion point (caret, I-Beam) width You can change the overall size of the arrow pointer and insertion point (I-Beam, caret or cursor) in the Mouse & Trackpad portion of the Universal Access System Preference. This affects the pointer and insertion point in all applications, not only Nisus Writer Express. 1. Choose System Preferences… from the Apple menu. 2. Choose Universal Access from the System row. 3. Click the Mouse & Trackpad tab. 4.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 229 Change the width of the insertion point ▶ Choose the desired width from the pop-up menu to the right of Insertion point (caret) width in the Appearance portion of the Nisus Writer Express Preferences dialog as illustrated in Figure 195. Your choices are: • • • • • hairline 1 pt 2 pts 3 pts character width Character width refers to the width of the alphanumeric character closest to the insertion point.
230 Setting Preferences WYSIWYG Font Menu You can make the Font menu WYSIWYG. Nisus Writer Express can display your Font menu (and the Family portion of the Character palette when it is expanded) so that each font’s name appears in that font. ☞ Displaying your fonts WYSIWYG can cause Nisus Writer Express to respond sluggishly. ▶ Check Font menu shows previews in the Appearance preferences dialog and choose the size you want them to appear in from the accompanying pop-up menu.
Customizing & Automating Solutions • • • • Note references any symbols that appear when you insert a footnote or an endnote in your document using Footnote or Endnote from the Insert menu; this does not affect the corresponding character in the notes area of your document PowerFind Bubbles any metacharacter symbols PowerFind displays using natural language words and phrases in a “bubble” as explained in “PowerFind Terminology” on page 177.
232 Setting Preferences • • Highlighters Nisus Writer Express comes shipped with a highlighter tool on the Toolbar that match the most common colors of highlighter pens available commercially. You can, however, change these six highlighter colors to anything you wish. • • Page Frame the color of the line that separates the page from the page backdrop. Highlight Color #1 - Highlight Color #6 each numbered color matches one as it appears in the sequence on the Highlight menu.
Customizing & Automating Solutions Choose Measurement Display Options For New Documents You can display measurements in either centimeters, inches, millimeters, points, or picas. Whichever option you choose in the View portion of the New File preferences determines their display on the ruler and in any dialog in which measurement options display – unless you change the unit of measurement for that particular file. 1. Choose Preferences… from the Nisus Writer Express menu. 2.
234 Setting Preferences Customize Your Clipboards As mentioned on page 46, the Clipboards of Nisus Writer Express are versatile. You can add to and/ or edit the contents of your Clipboards. You can create new Clipboards, choose which should be active, rename them and delete them. ☞ Information on all the Clipboards not the “Current Clipboard” is “lost” as you quit the application.
Customizing & Automating Solutions ▶ ▶ ▶ 235 Click a Clipboard’s name in the Preferences dialog then click Make Active to make it the active “Current Clipboard”. Click a Clipboard’s name in the Preferences dialog then click Edit Clipboard to open it as another Nisus Writer Express window and edit its contents. Click a Clipboard’s name in the Preferences dialog then click Delete to delete the selected Clipboard.
236 Setting Preferences ☞ You can quickly assign a keyboard shortcut to any of your styles while in the Style Sheet view, as explained in the section “Assign a keyboard shortcut to your style as you edit it” on page 87. Remove an existing keyboard shortcut 1. Choose Preferences… from the Nisus Writer Express menu and check Menu Keys at the top of the dialog. 2. Choose the menu command from which you wish to remove the keyboard shortcut. 3. Delete what appears in the text edit box. 4.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 237 Determine What QuickFix Fixes The QuickFix preference of Nisus Writer Express can fix your typos as you type, it can turn on or off “Smart Punctuation” (including curly quotes) and it can automatically superscript ordinal numbers. In addition to these tools QuickFix enables you to create and use Glossary files. Use the Glossary to save time. A glossary contains abbreviations with corresponding entries.
238 Setting Preferences 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. You should edit this file to contain a list of glossary entries. Each entry should be separated from the others by a glossary break (use the menu Insert > Glossary Entry Break). Each entry consists of an abbreviation and an expansion. The expansion is separated from the abbreviation by either a tab or newline character. Type the characters you want to use (something you’ll easily remember) as the abbreviation. Press @ or <.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 239 Activate a Nisus Writer Express Glossary file 1. Choose Preferences… from the Nisus Writer Express menu. 2. Click QuickFix at the top of the Preferences dialog. 3. Click the check box to the left of the glossary’s file name. If you leave the file checked when you quit Nisus Writer Express, it will be available to you the next time you restart the application. Enable automatic expansion of Nisus Writer Express Glossary file abbreviations 1.
240 Setting Preferences Fix typos as you type 1. Choose Preferences… from the Nisus Writer Express menu. 2. Click QuickFix at the top of the Preferences dialog. 3. Check Fix typos. Add or subtract, or modify a “typo” that gets fixed ▶ ▶ ▶ Click the “add” or “plus sign” button to add a typo. 1. Type the “typo” in the left column. 2. Type the correction in the right column. Select a “typo” to remove from the correcting list and click the “remove” or “minus sign” button to remove it.
Customizing & Automating Solutions the top of the Tooldrawer and choose New Palette Group… from the menu that appears. Figure 205 The More Palette Groups menu Figure 206 The Add New Palette Group dialog 3. Enter the group name you want to use and click OK.
242 Setting Preferences Figure 207 The Palette Library with an empty palette 4. Choose Palette Library from the Window menu. 5. Drag the palette(s) you want from the Palette Library into the Tooldrawer. You can thereafter choose your custom palette group from the top of the Custom Palette Groups menu inside the Tooldrawer.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 243 Save Preferences ▶ Your preferences are saved immediately as you create them. Nisus Writer Express saves the Preferences file as you quit the application. Return All Preferences to Their Original (Shipped) Settings ▶ After quitting Nisus Writer Express, find the file “com.nisus.NisusWriter.plist”. which is located in ~Library/Preferences/ and remove it from its folder.
Macros, Skimming the Surface Macros automate repetitive tasks and combine in one “command name,” a whole collection of tasks you frequently perform. It is easy to combine the menu commands of Nisus Writer Express into your own custom combinations. These combinations are called “Macros”. Consider each menu command in Nisus Writer Express a “micro” command. Putting them together, creates a “macro.” This portion of the manual describes how to create, run, delete, and save simple macros.
246 Macros Quick & Easy Open (“load”) a macro file ▶ Place the macro files you want Nisus Writer Express to open in the folder called Macros inside the folder called ~/Library/Application Support/Nisus Writer/Macros Nisus Writer Express automatically opens macro files and lists them in alphabetical order in the Macro menu. 1. Choose Load Macro… from the Macro menu. 2. Locate the macro file you want to load using the Open dialog that appears and click OK.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 247 When you load a macro file, Nisus Writer Express displays it as a command in the Macro menu. Before Creating a Macro Consider these basics before you create a macro • Determine the overall purpose of the macro. Do you plan to use the macro frequently? Or just once? Will others find the macro useful? • Think of a descriptive name for the macro. Use names that correspond to the operation the macro performs. • • Macro names are not case sensitive.
248 Macros Quick & Easy Figure 210 The unknown macro command alert Menu commands sometimes have the same name but perform different actions and belong to different menus. This only happens if you create menu commands (macros, file names, or window names) that conflict with the standard commands (or with other macros). To resolve conflicts in a macro, precede the command by the menu name followed by a colon.
Macros, the Deeper Workings The Nisus Writer Express Macro Language Writing macros is a form of programming. The Nisus Writer Express macro language consists of various sets of instructions. Each individual macro is made up of a list of these instructions that run in sequence (from top to bottom). The simplest macros are made of Nisus Writer Express menu commands… the actual commands you see in the menus as illustrated in “Working with Menu Commands” on 307.
250 Creating Macros with the Menu Command Dialect Writing Perl Scripts You can write your own macros using the well-known Perl script language. Perl is a very powerful scripting language, particularly for manipulating text. It includes the full power of Regular Expressions for finding and changing text based on patterns. Perhaps the most common form of a Macro simply reads each text line, modifies it where necessary and writes it back to where it came from.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 251 #source { front | next | none | clipboard } This tells Nisus Writer Express where to get the text that will be sent to the Perl Script. Choose one of the options, e.g. '#source front'. Front is the front document, next is the document behind the front document, none is no data and Clipboard is whatever text is on the Clipboard.
252 Creating Macros with the Menu Command Dialect Writing AppleScripts Using AppleScripts you can create little “stand alone” applications that you can use to take information from one “scriptable” program and manipulate it in a second one before passing it on to yet another. You can also create little applications that you can share with other Nisus Writer Express users. AppleScripts are made up of AppleEvents.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 253 Examples • tell application "Nisus Writer Express" get text of document 1 end tell • tell application "Nisus Writer Express" get character 3 of word 1 of paragraph 1 of text of document 1 end tell • tell application "Nisus Writer Express" set word 1 of text of document 1 to "Modified Text" end tell • tell application "Nisus Writer Express" set color of words 1 through 4 of text of document 1 to "green" end tell Nisus Writer Express has a limitation when se
Putting It All Together Nisus Writer Express contains the tools for composing documents of any length. You may already use many of Nisus Writer Express’s practical, time saving tools such as the spelling checker, Menu Keys, Drag and Drop, Unlimited Undos, to name a few. This part of the Nisus Writer Express documentation offers you suggestions on how to integrate the capabilities of Nisus Writer Express to get the most out of it.
256 Nisus Writer Express and the Community of Connected Applications • To provide this functionality though underlying technology that is simple to use and requires minimal changes in an existing Cocoa-based application. The goal of LinkBack is not to provide for in-application editing of data from another application. For example, LinkBack does not provide for a graphics application to do graphics editing in a word processor.
Putting It All Together 257 Express will open it, and display it as though it were opened in your Web browser. You can, nonetheless, edit your HTML documents in Nisus Writer Express. 1. In Nisus Writer Express choose Open… from the File menu. 2. When the Open dialog appears select the file you want to open (i.e. click the file name once in the Open dialog). 3. Click Ignore Rich Text Commands in the lower portion of the Open dialog. 4. Click Open.
258 Nisus Writer Express and the Community of Connected Applications 3. Drag the left margin of the body of the envelope as far out as you like. 4. Drag the top margins of the header of the envelope as far up as you like. 5. Type your return address in the Header. Figure 212 An Addressed Envelope 6. Put your insertion point the body portion of the document window and drag the ruler in to the right as desired (as illustrated in the envelope above). 7.
Afterword If you have any thoughts about how we can make Nisus Writer Express even better in the future, we welcome your ideas. Send feedback to Nisus Software Inc. 1. Choose Send Feedback… from the Help menu. 2. Choose the kind of feedback you want to send from the pop-up menu at the top of the dialog. Report a Crash, some Unexpected Behavior, or Performance, or submit a Feature Request. 3. Describe the issue in the area provided. 4.
260 To send feedback to Nisus Software Inc. On the odd chance that you are not connected to the internet at the time you want to send your feedback, the alert in appears. Please take notes that describe what happened and, when you do get connectivity, please send your comments. Figure 215 The “Not Connected” alert May all your writing “nisus” be a pleasure with Nisus Writer Express The dedicated group of people at Nisus Software Inc.
Appendices Appendix I Glossary of Useful Terms This document uses a number of terms that either may not be familiar to the “casual” user or are used in a technical way unique to word processing. We offer a small glossary of terms here . If you encounter other words that you believe should be included, please send them to
262 Appendix I - Glossary of Useful Terms gremlin Loosely “gremlins” are any non-printing characters that serve no useful purpose.
Appendices 263 ways of converting your text exist. These are called Text Encoding methods. Among these are ASCII and Unicode. tracking Also known as letter spacing, or character spacing, tracking refers to the space between all the letters of a word (see also kerning and ligature). Unicode All computers know only about numbers. To store letters, you have to assign them numbers. 1=A, 2=B, and so on.
Appendix II Displaying Fonts and Text About displaying fonts To display your text, Unicode or not, Nisus Writer Express must know how to draw the letters on the screen. A “font” tells Nisus Writer Express how to do this. A font contains drawing instructions for various letters and combinations of letters. These are called “glyphs”. It also contains information on how to map letters of text to glyphs.
Appendices 265 Compare a fractional font (11 point Bookman Old Style) The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. How razorback-jumping frogs can level six-piqued gymnasts! With a monospaced font (9 point Courier) The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. How razorback-jumping frogs can level six-piqued gymnasts! • Type @ only to line up columns, not to begin a paragraph with an indentation. If you want an indent at a new paragraph you use the first line indent indicator on the ruler.
266 Appendix II - Displaying Fonts and Text Enter a character using the keyboard Most of the unusual (Roman based) characters are made by pressing a combination of a key on the keyboard and a “modifier” key such as 4. For example, you can also create the symbol “§” 4 then the 6 as illustrated in Figure 217 below, in the small application called Keyboard Viewer which is available from the bottom of the Input (keyboard) menu) if you have turned it on.
Appendices 267 Table 21 below identifies many of these alphabetic characters and how you create them. Typing Special (Extended Roman) Characters To type: press à, è, ì, ò, ù Accent Grave 4 ` and then the letter. À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù UPPERCASE Accent Grave 4 `, 1 and then the letter. á, é, í, ó ú Accent Acute 4 e and then the letter. Á, É, Í, Ó Ú UPPERCASE Accent Acute 4 e, 1 and then the letter. â, ê, î, ô, û Circumflex 4 i and then the letter.
268 Appendix II - Displaying Fonts and Text ☞ • Space Press the Space Bar on your keyboard to enter a space between numbers and letters, etc. • Non-Breaking Space Press 4 and the Space Bar on your keyboard to enter a space between numbers and letters, etc. that prevents the “words” on either side from breaking at a line wrap. You can see how Nisus Writer Express displays these “invisible” or “formatting” characters in Figure 191 on page 226.
Appendices 269 Figure 219 Option-modified Hebrew keyboard • “Tzvei-Yudin” ( )ַײUsing the Hebrew – QWERTY keyboard… 1. Press 4 (and with the key still pressed)… 2. Type a טas illustrated in Figure 220.
270 Appendix II - Displaying Fonts and Text Set up language support on your Macintosh Check these pages on Apple’s Web Site (though it is possible that they have been removed): • Mac OS X 10.4 About Using Other Languages on Your Computer • Mac OS X 10.4 Writing Text In Other Languages
Appendices 271 Enter Unicode text All text in Nisus Writer Express is Unicode. You can enter any Unicode character at the insertion point in your document. 1. Choose Special Characters… from the bottom of the Edit menu. Figure 221 The System’s Character Palette 1. Choose All from the View pop-up menu at the top of the window (when the Toolbar is visible). 2. When the Unicode Blocks tab is active, choose the language or character set you want to use in the left column. 3.
Appendix III From Nisus Writer Classic to Nisus Writer Express With the release of Nisus Writer Express, all Macintosh computers sold by Apple no longer support the Classic environment. Those people who have used Nisus Writer Classic will need to bring their files into Nisus Writer Express. Open multilingual Nisus Writer Classic files in Nisus Writer Express Every individual bit of text in a Nisus Writer Classic file has a font (with a particular character encoding) associated with it.
Indexes Subject Symbols #10 Envelope (paper size), 103 ¢ searching for, 185 $ in Find/Replace as a metacharacter, 195 searching for, 185 £ searching for, 185 ¥ searching for, 185 ₪ searching for, 185 € searching for, 185 A A3 (paper size), 103 A4 (paper size), 103 A5 (paper size), 103 abbreviation Glossary, 237–239 in Find/Replace, AnySentence, 187 QuickFix, 239 above paragraph spacing, 17, 69–70 tables add row to, 147 text drawn on graphic, 127 accents, 265 address for envelopes, 258 in bidirectional text
276 searching for text in, 185 Choukei 3 Envelope (paper size), 103 Clipboard, 46 append cut, 45 append to, 44 bypassing in Find/Replace, 174 choosing, 47 contents not saved, 234 copy attributes only, 45 copy text only, 45 copy to, 44 customize, 234–235 cut, 45 display contents of, 47 edit contents of, 47 import graphic using, 125 import table data using, 143 in macros Perl, 250–251 menu on the Statusbar, 45 new, 47 paste text only, 46 rename, 47 swap paste, 46 Tag on the Statusbar, 12 tooltip on Statusbar,
Indexes 277 E Empty Page, 118 endnote, 133. See also: footnote change to footnote, 138 edit, 133 highlight color of, 231 in tables, 164 insert, 133 marker appearance, 133, 136 Notes Tag on Statusbar, 11 prevent lines from spreading when using, 69 remove, 137 return to document from, 133 note from its marker, 133 statistics (word, character) in, 17 style of, 83, 85 tables in, 164 envelope format and print, 257–258 page setup paper sizes, 103 Ethiopic, 185 F facing pages, 107, 118.
278 Subject Index H Han searching for text in, 185 Hangul searching for text in, 185 Hanunoo, 185 headers, 115–116, 118, 120–122, 124 "First Page Special", 118 change location of, 120–121 creating correspondence stationery, 257 deleting, 121 different each section, 118 different first page, 118 Draft View & Full Screen view, 204 editing, 119 even numbered pages, 118 for printing envelopes, 258 Header/Footer palette, 117 hiding, 121 images in, 119 in relation to the margin, 107 in tables, 155–156 odd numbe
Indexes Language Tag on the Statusbar, 12 Languages preferences, 36–38 of Nisus New File, 98 other than American English, 2 Paragraph Writing Direction submenu Commands explained, 30 QuickFix, 239 reverse direction markers, 41 right to left, 36 romanic, 36 typing unusual characters, 265 Unicode, 36 when character style applied, 86 writing in multiple languages, 36–43 alternate spelling dictionaries, 173 change, 40 using Language button on Toolbar, 10, 39 using Language pop-up menu of the Language palette, 4
280 Subject Index license, ii line spacing, 69 lists, 49–53 commands explained, 31 in styles, 89 of characters, 173 columns permitted, 109 keys permitted in menu commands, 235 paragraphs, 173 section, 132 tabs permitted, 73 words, 173 page display current and total, 124 displayed in the Page palette, 17 displayed on the Statusbar, 11 format of, 124 in document, 122 restart, 123 restart at 1, 123 pages, 122 all, 115 even, 118 in section, 122 multiple sections, 118 odd, 118 paragraph spacing, 70 printing co
Indexes formatted text, 48 graphics, 119, 125 in dialog boxes, 10 in Find/Replace window, 182 in Glossaries, 238 in tables, 142 ruler, 21 swap paste, 46 tables, 164 text only, 46 text with attributes, conflicts, 92, 220 using LinkBack, 255 PDF, 3 Persian searching for text in, 185 Persian, typing right to left text, 36, 40 picas, 233 Plain Quotes, 212 pointer choose table size, 141 exit Full Screen, 24 tooltip displayed, 12, 47, 133 variations, 8–9, 106, 120, 150 points, 233 portrait orientation, 105 show p
282 Subject Index Paragraph palette, 16 ruler, 41 tab invisible character, 225 tables, 43, 142 right-click.
Indexes 283 T tables, 139, 141–144, 146–150, 152– 164 add cells to, 147 adjust cell padding, 156 alignment, 144 of text in, 144 along decimal point, 146 Borders palette, location of, 15 cells add, 147 lines,edges, borders, 157 merge, 148 navigate among, 143 padding, 156 remove, 148 select, 143 shading, color, 160, 162–163 split, 149–150 Commands explained, 32 create, 140 from pre-existing text, 143 headers, 155 row header, 156 titles, 156 cut, copy and paste, 164 determine size of new, 140–141 enter graph
Commands & Screen Messages Symbols ^ ................................................................................................... 197–198 ^[[:alpha:]]+ ................................................................................... 198 - ......................................................................................... 194, 197–198 ? ............................................................................................................. 198 ?? .........................................
286 Commands & Screen Messages Any Character Style ..................................................................... 25 Any Currency ................................................................................ 185 Any Double Quote ..................................................................... 185 Any Font ............................................................................................. 27 Any Font Size .............................................................................
Indexes 287 Computer ............................................................................................. iv Continue numbering across document content ...... 53 Continue Numbering from Previous ........................ 31, 51 Continue Throughout Document ....................................... 48 Convert ............................................................. 21, 28, 47, 212, 239 Convert to Endnote ...................................................................
288 Commands & Screen Messages F Family ................................................................... 15, 78–79, 98, 230 Feature Request .......................................................................... 259 File ...... 1–3, 7, 19–20, 56–57, 59, 93, 96, 101–102, 105, 213– 214, 216, 222–224, 247, 256–258 File Format .......................................................... 93, 103, 247, 256 File Formats .......................................................................... 222–223 Find .
Indexes 289 Invisibles ............................................................................... 226, 232 Invisibles & Guides ................................................ 226–227, 232 Invisibles color ............................................................................ 226 Italic .............................................................................. 16, 28, 99, 208 J-K Japanese .................................................................................
290 Commands & Screen Messages Number Options ......................................................................... 124 Number Restart ........................................................................... 137 Numbered .......................................................................................... 53 Numbered List ................................................................................ 50 O Odd only ..............................................................................
Indexes 291 Repeat ..................................... 178–183, 188–189, 194–195, 198 Replace .............................................................................................. 175 Replace & Find .................................................................... 175–176 Replace All .................................................. 22, 175–176, 188–189 Replace and Find ........................................................................... 22 Replace With ..............................
292 Commands & Screen Messages Start Speaking ................................................................................. 22 Start Speaking Text .................................................................. 255 Starting Number ......................................................................... 136 Starting Page ....................................................................... 123–124 Statistics ...................................................................................
Index of Figures and Tables The Add License dialog Figure 3 ---------------------- iii The Add New Palette Group dialog Figure 206 ---------------- 241 An Addressed Envelope Figure 212 ---------------- 258 The Advanced portion of the New File preferences pane showing a different Nisus New File selected Figure 89 ----------------- 102 The Advanced portion of the New File preferences pane Figure 87 ----------------- 100 Aligning text inside the footer area Figure 112 ---------------- 123 Alignment buttons on
294 Index of Figures and Tables The Format portion of the New File preferences pane Figure 84 ------------------- 98 Full Screen view in a “retro” look Figure 197 ---------------- 231 The General section of the Preferences dialog Figure 81 ------------------- 95 Glossary files location Figure 203 ---------------- 238 The Go to Page field on the Statusbar Figure 180 ---------------- 207 The Go to Page sheet and its pop-up menu Figure 179 ---------------- 207 A graphic selected for resizing Figure 115 -----
Indexes 295 Page Border set at Text Margin Figure 103 ---------------- 112 The Page Borders palette Figure 101 ---------------- 111 Page Guides (with “Click for Header”) showing Figure 192 ---------------- 227 Page Guides not showing Figure 193 ---------------- 227 Page number display and its menu Figure 111 ---------------- 122 The Page Setup dialog set for a #10 Envelope Figure 211 ---------------- 257 Pages from two sections spanning a section break Figure 113 ---------------- 123 The Palette Library w
296 Tiger Keyboard Viewer of the U.S. Extended keyboard after pressing 4 Tiger Keyboard Viewer of the U.S. Extended keyboard after pressing 4 u Typing Special characters using the U.S.
